Twenty SU-27 Fighter Jets to Be Based at Crimea’s Belbek Airbase!

- Twenty SU-27 Fighter Jets to Be Based at Crimea’s Belbek Airbase!
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MOSCOW, June 10 (RIA Novosti) – Twenty SU-27 fighter jets are to be relocated to Belbek airbase in Crimea by the end of 2014, a source at the Russian Ministry of Defense told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
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“By the end of the year about twenty SU-27 fighter jets will be based at Belbek airbase serving the Russian air defense unit,” said the source.
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Earlier, more than 50 aircraft were based at Belbek, including MIG-29 Ukrainian Air Force fighter jets. Currently, the process of transferring the fighters to Ukraine is near its completion.
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According to the source, Russian pilots are to fly these planes, while pilots who quit the Ukrainian army are being trained as well. “The training will take half a year,” said the source.
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